Servant Salamander 2.5 beta 5 Changelog

Release date: May 28, 2004

Sorting directories by extension is back. Look at Panels configuration page.
File handles are temporarily closed when Copy/Move error message is displayed, so you can work with these files.
Junction Points are handled properly now.
You can choose the directory that will be opened when the current panel path is inaccessible. Look at Drives configuration page.
You can use Ctrl+Backspace for deleting whole words in edit lines. Use Cltr+Left/Right to skip whole words. Not supported on Windows 9x.
New options for the Change Drive Menu. Look at Change Drive Menu configuration page. You can set visibility for your drives and separate groups of drives by separator.
New confirmation for Find: "Do you want to stop searching?" Look at Confirmations configuration page.
Better initial dialog box for importing old Servant Salamander configuration. You can import your old registration keys now.
We are preparing two new plugins: UNDELETE will be able to recover your deleted files. NTFS and FAT 12, 16, and 32 will be supported. Screenshot: [1]. With FOLDERS plugin you will be able to browse your Desktop, My Computer, Control Panels, etc. Screenshots: [1], [2]. Both plugins will be free of charge.
We fixed almost 25 reported bugs and made about 20 small improvements in the Servant Salamander core.

Major changes in reading *.DWG from ACAD 9-12.
Partial support of images in Excel files *.XLS.
Support of a new type of images in Word files *.DOC.
Major fixes in reading Portable Document Format and PostScript files *.PDF and *.PS.
Fixes of reading Ruplan *.RIS, AutoCAD *.DXF, Metafile *.EMF and *.WMF, HPGL and HP-RTL, AutoTrol *.DG, Computer Graphics Metafile *.CGM.

Added support of CorelDraw! 12.0 *.CDR.
Added support of DirectX textures *.DDS and *.DTX.
Added partial support (thumbnails only) of Paint Shop Pro 8 *.PSP* images.
Added support of a new type of CMYK JPEG.
Fixed playback of Animated GIFs.
Support of Nikon maker note in EXIF JPEGs.
Refreshing and creating JPEG thumbnails. Look at menu item Plugins / PictView / Refresh Thumbnail.
Fixed rotating and saving tiled images.
Fixed reading of 2-bit Amiga IFF/ILBM images.
Fixed reading of interlaced PNG files.
Improved reading manufacturer-specific tags in EXIF. Library was updated to latest EXIF Tag Parsing Library.

Support for El Torito extension (bootable CD): you can extract all boot images from ISO image.
Improved stability.

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